How to open the keyboard not in full screen??

[Rondo23]

Hi all,
i want to ask how to open the keyboard not full screen,
usually when i try to write anything in qLineEdit for example , the keyboard is opening in full screen mode
i noticed on symbian^3 (when writing a message or in whatsapp application) , the keyboard is opening on the half of the screen and i can still visualize my UI.
so is there a way to accomplish that in Qt?
Thank you
Rondo

[Fuzzbender]

In Qt4.7.4 there is a new QApplication level flag for this.
This release of Qt also tries to ensure that your input text item is visible above the virtual keyboard (only supported for QGraphicsViews and derived classes, such as QML declarative views; qwidgets are not supported for this automatic mode, though you can still activate splitview functionality with them).

Internet is full of stories how to do activate splitview keyboard with native code in Symbian Anna and using previous releases of Qt.

[Tiger54]

Hi FuzzBender,

I am trying to make a simple app but it doesn't work. I am working with 4.7.3 and it seems that this flag is already present (I wrote it in main.cpp):

QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_S60DisablePartialScreenInputMode, false);

But the keyboard is never splitted.

I have a QLineEdit in my mainwindow form. But when I click on the editbox, the keyboard is always in fullscreen mode.

[savaj]

Other people are also having same issue with Qt 4.7.3.

[Fuzzbender]

Qt 4.7.3 does not support the splitview yet (the flag is available, but it has no implementation). In Qt 4.7.4, it should work (but no auto-translation of QWidgets, i.e. app needs to ensure itself that the input widget is above the keyboard).

To use partial keyboard in 4.7.3, you need to use native APIs. See for example http://qtsource.wordpress.com/2011/0...en-text-input/

[Tiger54]

Thank you Fuzz,
I made a simple app and it works. There is a simple way to implement it. I rewrote the LineEdit function (focusInEvent):

EditX.h:

#ifndef EDITX_H
#define EDITX_H

#include <QLineEdit>

#if defined(Q_OS_SYMBIAN)
#include <aknedsts.h>
#include <coeaui.h>
#include <coemain.h>
#include <w32std.h>
#define EAknEditorFlagEnablePartialScreen 0x200000
#endif

class editX : public QLineEdit
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit editX(QWidget *parent = 0);

signals:

public slots:
    void focusInEvent(QFocusEvent *);

};

#endif // EDITX_H

editX.cpp:

#include "editx.h"

editX::editX(QWidget *parent) :
    QLineEdit(parent)
{
}

void editX::focusInEvent(QFocusEvent *e)
{
#if defined(Q_OS_SYMBIAN)
    MCoeFepAwareTextEditor *fte = CCoeEnv::Static()->AppUi()->InputCapabilities().FepAwareTextEditor();
    // FepAwareTextEditor() returns 0 if no text editor is present
    if (fte)
    {
        CAknEdwinState *state = STATIC_CAST(CAknEdwinState*, fte->Extension1()->State(KNullUid));
        state->SetFlags(state->Flags() | EAknEditorFlagEnablePartialScreen);
    }
#endif
}

And in the mainwindow, I created a editX instead of a QLineEdit object. Now it works

Thank you!

[Fuzzbender]

Nice, Tiger54. Have a nice splitview!